by Ruby Taylor | Jun 20, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Wakehurst: artist in residence
I’m visiting Wakehurst Place in East Sussex to have a look at their meadows with my position as artist in residence for this summer in mind, which will be part of their Meadows Festival. The plan is to explore the possibilities of weaving with the meadow plants...
by Ruby Taylor | Feb 18, 2014 | All Journal Entries
There are 86 pieces of Lego per person in the world. I told my friends this and, aside from reservations about the proliferation of plastics, most were in favour of Lego as a ‘fantastic experimental learning tool’. I remember playing with it when I was a child. I can...
by Ruby Taylor | May 22, 2013 | All Journal Entries
At the 2013 Ice Age Art exhibition at the British Museum I spent some time studying the baked clay animals in the show. They’re mostly small fragments, around 2-4cm in size. Despite their smallness and lack of detail they’re exquisite and the essence of the animals is...
by Ruby Taylor | Apr 2, 2013 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wild Basketry
I was inspired to make this piece using twine made of lime and foraged willow bast, after hearing about archaeological finds of looped fibre fragments from the late Mesolithic period (middle stone age) found in Denmark. That’s around 9,000 years ago, pre-agriculture,...
by Ruby Taylor | Mar 5, 2013 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wild Basketry
Last winter there were a few weeks when it was unusually snowy. And in the usual English way, human life pretty much ground to a halt because of it. One morning I heard a loud thump at a window. At head height was a little clump of small downy feathers stuck to the...